Ellsworth Kelly - Modern & Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 21, 2010 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 337; Richard Axsom 78

  • Artist Biography

    Ellsworth Kelly

    American • 1923 - 2015

    Acting as a vital contributor to the Abstract movement, Ellsworth Kelly focused on color and composition. Becoming inspired by ornithology and the bold coloring of birds, Kelly used a two or three pigment color palette — painted flatly and geometrically — on his canvases. While living in Paris, the artist used Monet's late works as a base for experimenting with expressionism and serial work

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PROPERTY OF DREIER LLP THIS LOT IS SOLD WITH NO RESERVE

15

Green/Black

1970-72
Lithograph in colors, on Special Arjomari paper, with full margins,
I. 30 x 18 in. (76.2 x 45.7 cm);
S. 40 3/4 x 30 1/4 in. (103.5 x 76.8 cm)

signed and numbered 44/50 in pencil (there were also 9 artist's proofs), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their blindstamps), very minor soiling in the margins, occasional minor wear in places along the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $6,000

Modern & Contemporary Editions

21 Nov 2010
New York